Sentences with phrase «seized upon such»

One of the claims of the most recent assessment before this one, that the Himalayan glaciers were set to disappear within 40 years, has since been retracted, and skeptics have seized upon such predictive errors to invalidate the IPCC's findings entirely.

Many academics would have seized upon such an opportunity to turn the tables on a critic.

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Now his supporters think such an old controversy is «explainable» and will not weigh him down, though potential opponents are still bound to seize upon it.

This study was promptly seized upon as proof that the world is not warming, even though a single example of localised cooling proves no such thing, as the lead author of the 2002 study has tried to point out.

It has recently been seized upon by educators as a tool to explore our knowledge of student achievement, and ways that such achievement might be improved.

For the exhibit Baker seizes upon current political anxiety that informs her series of works which employ text from the US Constitution, in addition to mathematical constructs such as Pi, and the Golden Section.

She seizes upon popular subjects such as sunsets and televisions and creates large - scale installations that reveal contemporary society's collective photographic habits and the underlying desires that shape them.

Notorious for a double murder involving the mistress of the President Félix Faure in 1908, the alley was seized upon soon after as the perfect studio space and home for artists such as Constantin Brancusi, William N. Copley, Max Ernst, Yves Klein, Les Lalanne, Larry Rivers and many other important artists of the early 20th century.

Against this, global warming deniers such as yourselves have, predictably, seized upon the recent cold snap in Europe, which is said to be the coldest in 10 or 20 years (or in the case of the Czech Republic, since 1940), to convince the rest of us that all is well, after all.